I always felt like there was something weird about rankings when it came to HN. I recall submitting something that got around 7 upvotes in 30 minutes but it go

I always felt like there was something weird about rankings when it came to HN. I recall submitting something that got around 7 upvotes in 30 minutes but it got dead and buried and never presented itself on the front page. The content wasn't edgy and it wasn't clickbait. But a few days later I saw an unrelated post with 2 upvotes after 1 full hour and it was magically on the front page. If a post with 2 upvotes after 1 hour can be on the front page but a post with 7 upvotes in 30 minutes is not, then surely there needs to be some type of manual intervention happening. Glad to see there's data showing this now and I'm not going crazy.